Melting down raw material to remove impurities

. . . I’ll refine them as silver is refined, test them for purity as gold is tested. Then they’ll pray to me by name and I’ll answer them personally. I’ll say, “That’s my people.” They’ll say, “GOD – my God!”
Zechariah 13:9

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated linesof a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori (1870–1952), educator